THE MARRIAGE LAWS.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—You recently directed attention to the law regarding civil marriage in Ireland. Permit me to mention my own case, one of great hardship to me.
I am an Englishman, though at present resident in Ireland. I am about to be married in England, but must first—whether my marriage be a civil or a religious one—give the Registrar hero three weeks' notice. This is tolerable, but in that notice I have to say that I have attended such a place of worship for one mouth. Physically, I am more than slightly deaf ; my opinions are not strictly orthodox, and yet I must go to church in Ireland and listen to creeds I can't hear and don't believe, in order that I may perform a simple act of citizenship in my own country !—I am,
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